Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-03

Ills thO DCLipSI dtiS
leaders of the State is but simple JUS
tice."
We call the attention of the Knights
of Labor to the following excerpt from
the statement of Charles J. Peshall,
prominent New Jersey attorney, rela-
tive to the recent transfer of the B. &
o. Telegraph to Jay Gould:
When the Cowen-Iyes deal fell through
because Mr.. Garrett declared the business at
an end, as soon as he learned Ives was try
ing to sell the telegraph to the Western Un-
ion, Gould opened negotiations on his own
account. and that he might the better have
chance to explain his purposes, invited Mr..
Garrett to sail on his yacht. To the amaze
ment of the latter, when he went aboard the
vessel he found John X. Cowen, general
counsel of the b. & U. road, and Thomas NJ.
King, its second vice-president, who had
been requested by Gould to make up the
party. Hardly had anchor been weighed
when Gould asked Garrett to sell him one
half the B. s. o. telegraph stock and together
they would dispose of the property to the
Western Union, afterwards dividing the pro-
ceeds. Furthermore, Gould proposed in
the presence of Cowen and King, that Gar
ret turn in and help him carry Maryland for
the Republicans this fall and then according
to this argument West Virginia would follow
suit. This, sad Gould, aoould enable him
self and Garrett to dictate the forthcoming
presidency and ,oould giue them their oaon
acay at Washington In 1889. Mr.. Garrett
promptly refused to accede to either of the
propositions despite their tempting trim
mings.
In others words, with Democracy
trium plant, Mr.. Gould could not "dic-
tate the presidency and have his own
way at Washington" We refer to the
knights of Labor in this connection,
because in nearly every instance where
they have combined to "smash the old
parties" they have aided the Republi-
cans-the party that has always stood
by and legislated for the benefit of the
monopolist and capitalist. 1t was the
Republican party that in voting the
bonds payable in coin only, when ac-
cOrding to their tenor they were pay
able in greenbacks-the money good
enough for the laborer, the soldier and
the peDsioner gave the capitalists
nearly thousand millions of the gov
eminent treasure: as clear and infa-
nous steal as ever was perpetrated.
1t was the Republican party that de-
mOnetized silver i'm 1873, to still further
advance the value of the bonds and
make them payable in gold alone, and
it was the Democratic party, few
years later, that restored the silver
dollar to it's value and made it again
standard circulating medium.
1t was the Republican party that
gave away to corporations millions of
acres of public lands belonging to the
people, much of which has since been
recovered by Democratic administra-
ton.
1t is the Republican party that pro-
tects the capitalist by enormous tariffs
on the articles he manufactures while
he imports thousands of "pauper labor
ers" from Europe to enable him to cut
down the wages of his American en-
ployes.
1t is the Eastern monopolist and Re-
publican who desires the taxes taken
off of whiskey and tobacco and yet de-
sires to tax, by tariff duties, the laborer
from so to 100 per cent. on nearly every
article of clothing he wears.
1t is the Republican protectionist
and monopolist of Pennsylvania who
combines with fellow capitalists to de-
clare just how many tons of coal their
employees shall be permitted to dig, and
how great tax the public shall pay
for their products.
And now, the electromagnetic and
Republican protectionist of them all,
not content with subjecting nation
of sixty millions to his financial
schemes, proposes by defeating Democ
racy and putting the Republican party
in power, to "dletate the pre- sidency
and give him his own way at Wash
ington in 1891" Will the knights of
Labor aid HIM in his purposes? Will
they, by smashing" the Democratic
party, knife the only power that has
ever stood between the laborer and the
autocratic, grasping monopolist? We
don't believe they will, and don't be- |
lleve they can; for the Democrats at
least among them who would he blind
ly led to such contamination are few,
and the intelligent laborer must surely
see, in the light of past events, that
safety for him lies not among his enc
mics.
COlOred Society Notes.
Mr.. Reuben johnson, of Richmond, Va,
4 L.